#TWoO spoilers

[anhttydbookfan]

i just finished the wizards of once series and… huh. i’m not sure what to think.

Same, honestly. It felt like it wanted so badly to become a tragedy, but couldn't, so Cowell outsourced the tragedy to the Arthurian Mythos.

Though, admittedly, I did enjoy the way it was written, even if I didn't entirely care for the events that were being narrated.

And the journey to get there was good.

[aldoodles]

‘The boy iss mine already’

[wickedcriminal]

This chapter starts off strong with a really great sense of quiet horror. Everyone waking up in suspense because they can feel something is near, despite being on a bridge that should deter enemies they can still sense they're being hunted

It's super spooky and I love it

[orangeblobby]

Thinking about Never and Forever again

[neskastree]

JUST KISS YOU TWO

i arrived in Act 4 finally, so i kinda passed half of the game? Possibly?? it's so good

[thecluelessdoctor]

So I finally finished good omens.

All I got from it was gay demon and angel and sad/j

Anyway have the doodles I made in the last hour

I can't stop laughing at the espressions.

Friend idea to make them clothes swap

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures

oh yeah and finally sad

Cw: good omens final spoilers

THEY KITHED BUT IT WAS SAD KITH AND THEN THEY- I- *SOBBING INTO HANDS*

[thomas-mvller]

Connor's speech about being used to no being loved was spot on without a shadow of a doubt, but him saying the other three are the ones begging for logan's love when HE is the one pushing to get a big check from dad, HE is the one licking logan's boots so he'd finance his presidential campaign, HE is the one who plotted the whole karaoke thing so logan would talk to them and HE was the one who snitched on his siblings on his dad's behalf..... like i'm sorry but it sounds to me like he should've included himself on the "begging" speech but welp, he pulled logan's manipulation tactics to get away with it, thus proving he's also begging for logan's love.

Logan reached to connor to use him and he still fell for the trap, what's not clicking??

[grapecaseschoices]

so i didnt hate n’s route for book 3

[meandmyechoes]

THE FUCKING REFLECTION ON RIYO’S GOLD FOIL HEADGEAR

[the-legend-of-zelda-series]

My Thoughts on Tears of the Kingdom (Spoilers Ahead!)

Story: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL REUNION FOR THE ENDING! Probably my second favorite Zelda story. (Twilight Pricness will always remain number 1 to me)

Gameplay Mechanics: After a while, the mechanics grew rather tedious for me. At least the rebuild saves a lot of the headache of building your best builds. Also FUCK TULIN'S SPIRIT HELPER! EVERYTIME I PRESS A BUTTON TO PICK UP AN OBJECT, HE BLOWS IT AWAY BECAUSE ITS STUPIDLY MAPPED TO THE SAME INPUT!

Challenges Loop: Why do shrines if the only worthwhile reward is just upgrades for Link? No cool, unique weapons. AND I HATE THE GODDAMN WEAPON BREAKING SYSTEM! Sure, they 'fixed it' with fusion stuff but it shouldn't be in the game at all! Especially on weapons that you find in the shrines. Would have made doing shrines more worth it imo.

Side quests: So many! A lot of time went into the dialogue within the quests alone! Nice job! More NPCs made the world feel more alive and it was a welcomed change from BOTW.

Dungeons: I mean..."dungeons". Too damn short and twoo damn easy. Like I was able to easily cheese the Fire Temple, and the Sky Temple was not even challenging. I miss the temples from OoT and TP. I hope they come back, but I doubt it since Nintendo is making mucho dinero on just BOTW and TOTK alone.

OVERALL RATING: 7.5 out of 10

GOTY Material: Someone would say yes. I would not. I believe that honor, (so far as the year is not over) goes to Final Fantasy 16.

Let me know what you all think about TOTK. I'm very curious on others viewpoints about it!

[anhttydbookfan]

I WAS RIGHT

TWoO is set in the Bronze Age!

it CANNOT be an origin story for the very medieval King Arthur Mythos!

[aldoodles]

Shooting cupid

[wickedcriminal]

"YOU DIED!!!! BUT YOU'RE A GREAT ENCHANTER!!! SO YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE LIFE!!!!!"

"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard"

[orangeblobby]

I noticed how the destiny kiddos of twoo and httyd, though kind and generally willing to give people chances, learn to have a backup plan to account for the treachery of the people around them.

Hiccup has a backup plan to ensure Fishlegs' escape from the caves in case Snotlout sells them out.

Wish plants her sword in the rock in case the kingwitch breaks his promise and abandons the code while her team works.

These Plan B's have dire consequences for the kids: Hiccup gets tortured, Wish literally dies.

The plans salvage the awful situations that arise because the kids decided to trust but also highlight their unwavering faith in their friends. Trust is their undoing, but is also the very thing that brings them back from the brink.

[anotheruntitledsong]

i think its fucking hilarious that Xar becomes king Arthur w

[yv-sketches]

Why I did not like Never and Forever’s ending

I was the first person on tumblr to get it and I’m afraid I’ve scared multiple people by saying something happens at the end. I’m very sorry for that, so I’ll do my best to explain why.

First off, I don’t dislike this book, and I didn’t write this to convince people to dislike its ending. In fact, I’m incredibly happy for every singe person who liked the ending better than I did.

Secondly, I know it is me. I am too old for this. I really ought to quit drawing characters from a middle grade book and do more important things with my life.

MAJOR SPOILERS UNDER THE READ MORE. Please do not click here if you haven’t read the book. I mean it, don’t click.

In my last year of high school (yes I am that old, I feel old too), I followed program for people who might want to study English at university. There was a fancy professor with fancy books and everything. The subject was Arthurian legend, and almost all of the the medieval stories were incredibly depressing and/or disturbing, so I’m stuck with a lot of cursed knowledge about king Arthur I would rather forget.

There is no historical Arthur, or a definitive version of the myths including him. If anything it’s more like a bunch of fanfics about original characters that got lost over time. BBC had their interpretation, Guillermo Del Toro has his, Disney has theirs and now Cressida wrote one.

Unless you know that medieval depressing stuff, which the target audience probably doesn’t, twoo’s ending is actually pretty sweet. The witches are gone, the fules kissed and no one is confirmed dead. Not even Sychorax’s suitors.

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My problem is not with the reveal itself, but the way it was done.

Httyd 1 started with the prologue that foreshadowed the ending that would follow 12 books later. The first httyd book is riddled with clues and messages that connect to the final story. The two dragons biting each others tail on Stoick’s shield, the injury on Toothless’s chest. Small things that have a major impact once you know what they mean.

Twoo does not have anything like that. In the first three books, there were no hints, no clues, no red herrings to conceal the twist at the end. Not once was there a joke about ‘Once and Future Magic’, or a mention of the city Camelot.

(The warrior capital could have been called Camelot in a random sentence no one would pay attention to, or Xar could joke about how the person of destiny was the once and future monarch of the entire Wildwoods.) All I found was a magic sword and a bird named Caliburn. Caliburn was already a character, so I did not expect the sword to be Excalibur/Caliburn too.

When Wish put the sword in the stone, I did expect a link to the Arthurian myths. A promise that the sword would get out of the stone once there was a peaceful kingdom of Wizards and Warriors together maybe? Like httyd, it would be a hopeful ending that one day there would be a king/queen to rule over a kingdom without slaves mining iron or droods with scary prisons. I did not expect the characters themselves to end up in the Arthurian myths.

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The Arthurian ending would make some great character arcs if they’d been written in from the start. Xar never gets magic, but he becomes a wise king, with a round table with werewolves and hobs as equals. It’d be a perfect ending for him. Morgana used to be a benevolent magician watching over Arthur, and that sounds exactly like Wish. Yes, she is the person of destiny, but she stays Arthurs magic protector and best friend. Also perfect.

Bodkin gets over his fainting thing and becomes a honourable knight? Hmm... He spent three books disliking violence and wanting to be a storyteller. He might have overcome his fear and beat the Nuckalavee, but being good at something does not equal liking it. There’s also the ableist implication that you have to get over a condition to be a worthy hero, and that doesn’t feel right at all. However, he is the epitome of chivalry, and he’s a Fishlegs-like hopeless romantic whose crush might unintentionally start a war.

This all makes sense, and it would have been an amazing conclusion. I think I would have loved the ending if there were pages in book 1-3 showing that Cressida’s Camelot was far less creepy. The tales of arcadia and BBC versions each have a kid friendly version for their story. If the series was set in an entirely different Camelot, one Cressida specifically created for her story, it would be amazing to see Xar become a great king and Wish the most powerful Wizard. Instead, Camelot did not seem to exist until halfway into book 4, so the only Camelot I thought of was of the disturbing medieval variety.

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The last pages just leave us with the names. This was an original world with original characters, no reason to assume they would grow up to be Arthur, Morgana and Lancelot until the last 15 pages. Then the entire series ends.

The httyd characters got an ending that leaves them right where they are. Three children on their way to a brighter future, happy to be alive and happy to be together, and perhaps dragons will return when the world is a better place.

From How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury:

So that is where we will leave them, Hiccup and his friends: forever young, forever hopeful, singing their hearts out on the island of Tomorrow. BECAUSE... If it doesn’t end well, then it isn’t THE END

This is not possible with the twoo trio. Cressida told me exactly which adults they will grow up to be, and with all the terrible things that medieval people wrote about their characters, I also know there is no reason to be hopeful. I feel bad closing the book if that is how their lives will continue.

It does NOT end well, and it IS the end.

These characters deserved better than the fates assigned to them in the last few pages.